5 killed in Yemen AT least five people were killed and 20 wounded by a Houthi missile fired at the Yemeni city of Marib, security and medical sources told Reuters on Tuesday. Saudi-owned broadcaster Al Arabiya reported earlier that a Houthi Katyusha missile targeted a residential neighborhood in the city center of Marib, which falls under the control of the internationally recognized government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. Backed by the Saudi-led Arab coalition, Hadi’s government has been battling the Iran-aligned Houthi movement since 2015 in a war that has driven the country to the verge of famine. Cuba toll rises to 111 THE death toll from a plane crash in Cuba last week rose to 111 Monday as one of the three survivors, 23-year-old Grettel Landrove, died in a Havana hospital, Cuban state-run media said. The two other survivors, also women, remain in critical condition due to severe burns and other trauma, the director of the hospital where they are being treated told the state-run broadcaster. The airliner crashed shortly after takeoff for a domestic flight from Havana on Friday in one of Cuba’s worst air disasters. Two new Ebola deaths TWO new deaths from Ebola and seven new confirmed cases have been recorded in Democratic Republic of Congo, the health ministry said yesterday. One of the deaths occurred in the provincial capital of Mbandaka, according to a daily bulletin. A nurse also died in the village of Bikoro, where the outbreak was first detected, ministry spokeswoman Jessica Ilunga said. The seven new confirmed cases were registered in Bikoro. |